April 21-24

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Use this blog to see what is coming up each week. I will usually post it on Saturdays for the following week. If you are away, you can check up on what you are missing. There really is no reason for you not to know what is happening. If you do not have an Internet connection, you certainly know someone who does.

If you can't read the PowerPoint material on your computer, download PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft. It is free.

Sutherland has a license to access Discovery Education's United Streaming video collection. Students may download or stream videos from the collection by going to http://www.unitedstreaming.com/ . Use the passcode posted in the classroom to register. If you have lost it, see me, or e-mail me, for this information. Students are licensed to include this content within their own creations.

Note: Friday is Curriculum Implementation Day - A School Board directed day of work and activities for teachers and other school staff. Classes are not in session.

Please note also that the original posting of this blog has been modified during the week -- the cumulative effect of a series of shortened blocks.

Social Studies 11 (Regular)

You have an ongoing assignment, due in mid-May. This is the Family History Assignment (International Students' Version and First Nations Students' Version - which will not be due until mid May. (See also the BBC's pedigree sheet - a rough form to serve as a starting point for your own pedigree).

Our next unit test is a little way off -- another couple of weeks away. It will cover the Interwar period and World War II.

• Monday, April 21- Take up homework. Background to the Great Depression (including statistics) - Continue PowerPoint - Canada Between the Wars; 1919-1939. AV on the Depression - (From: Canada; A People’s History with questions.). Read pp. 68-79. Do sidebar questions p. 71 & 72 & #1-4, p. 72, sidebar questions p. 76, 78 & 79 & #1-2, p. 79. Watch this 5 minute segment from The Great Depression, a Discovery Education video, or this 5 minute segment from America's Economy; Sorrow & Hope (you need to login -- see the note at the top of this page on Discovery Education/United Streaming). On the 0pen Internet, watch The 1929 Stock Market Crash. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 & Part 5 - each segment is 5 minutes or less).


• Tuesday, April 22 - Wednesday, November 7 - Take up homework. Continue Canada; A People’s History; Hard Times & questions and PowerPoint - Canada Between the Wars; 1919-1939. Read pp. 79-86. Do sidebar #1-4, p. 81, sidebar questions p. 82 & #3-4, p. 85 & #1-3, p. 86. To see the US' Franklin Delano Roosevelt's approach to dealing with the disaster of the Great Depression, watch the following 2 minute or so segments from Discovery Education/United Streaming's The Great Depression ("The New Deal", "Roosevelt's Programs", Roosevelt's Critics", and "Second New Deal". You will need to login to Discovery Education to view these -- see the note at the top of this page.)


• Wednesday, April 23 - Take up homework. Continue Canada; A People’s History; Hard Times & questions and PowerPoint - Canada Between the Wars; 1919-1939. Political Cartoon Assignment. (10 marks, due Monday). Read pp. 86-90. Do #1-2 sidebar p. 89, #1-3, p. 90. See Statistic Canada's Great Depression pages -- especially the photograph collection. Also visit the Historical Atlas of Canada Online Learning Project - Open and use the maptour as you work through this material. Make sure your computer is set to allow popups.


• Thursday, April 24 - Take up homework. Continue video clips from Canada; A Peoples' History; Hard Times and questions. Read pp. 90-98. Do sidebars p. 92 both on 95 & 96, #1-5, p. 98. Find out about Nazi Germany by watching the BBC's The World at War; A New Germany (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.) This is one of the best documentaries describing and showing Nazi Germany. For background on Mussolini, see Discovery Education's Mussolini, on YouTube. Find out about Japan between 1933-1945 by watching Japan; In Colour (Part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5). For a 1941 German perspective on the origins of World War II, see Sieg im Westen - With English dubbing (Part 1, part 2. Further parts deal with the start of World War II).

Social Studies 11 (Honours)

You have an ongoing assignment, due in mid-May. This is the Family History Assignment (International Students' Version and First Nations Students' Version - which will not be due until mid May. (See also the BBC's pedigree sheet - a rough form to serve as a starting point for your own pedigree).

The final Government unit test will be on Monday and will include the Canadian Constitution and Provincial and Municipal government. Expect the mark breakdown to be roughly as follows: 24 multiple choice (1 mark each), 8 definitions (2 marks each), and three of five long answer questions (6 marks each). The total is therefore out of 58 marks. 25 appropriate flash cards is the minimum required to earn 5 bonus marks.

• Monday, April 21 - Unit Test on The Constitution, BC and Municipal political systems. Read pp. 1-10. Do handout questions and #1-3, p. 10.


• Tuesday, April 22 - Introduction to the study of history. Read pp. 10-20. Do #1-4, p. 15 & #1-6, p. 20.


• Wednesday, April 23 - Take up #1-6, p. 20. Filmstrip: Opening the Canadian West & questions. The Laurier Boom. Filmstrip on immigration. The Shaws of Midnapore (questions). Read pp. 20-24. Do #1-2, p. 24.


• Thursday, April 24 - Take up homework. Complete watching The Shaws of Midnapore and finish questions. Immigration filmstrip: The New Homeland (questions). Complete the handout: A White Canada. Access The Peopling of Canada on the Internet. How did the pre-WWI immigration boom change Canada?